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Puck 226

A different Puck character cosplays as a famous cartoon villain … every single week in March! Now I know some of you have given me flack for going all 80’s retro on you too often, so this time I’m making it all about prominent cartoons from the post-millennial decade. Just for the young’ns!

For readers who don’t recognize the blonde chick, that’s Tracee. We last saw Tracee working as Satan’s public relations officer. We now see Tracee in a slightly different role. What does this mean? It means that kooky hilarity will ensue. As always.

When my wife saw this comic, she recoiled. “Gah, Tracee!” she exclaimed. “She’s just too … blonde. It kind of stresses me out.”

Uhm I don’t know how to say that and I’ll understand if you want to moderate this comment, but I saw panel three and for a few seconds I thought that although panel 3 is supposed to be fanservice-y already, I was looking at extreme fanservice (you know, the topiary kind) then I remembered that those are likely panties and that a woman like Tracee probably hasn’t dealt with something as mundane as body hair (especially so much body hair) for a looong time.

You are correct. Body hair of that variety would never be found on a woman like Tracee. I was aiming more for a general feeling of extreme impropriety than extreme fanservice, but yeah. Black seemed like the only underwear color that Tracee would wear, if you get my drift, but I think (for clarity) I’m changing the color right now to chaste white. Doesn’t work with the character, but less visually confusing.

Heck, if you wanted iconic, you could have gone with black. Like tvtropes says, you don’t buy black underwear unless you want someone to see it – albeit briefly – and as most people consider it to be the colour of the Dark Side, it would have been entirely appropriate for the occasion and the location. 😉

Well, it was obviously visually confusing because you weren’t the only one who said that. So I changed it. But for the record, I think it’s safe to say that with Tracee the carpet likely wouldn’t match the drapes. Though girls like Tracee usually have carpeting removed…

I prefer to choose many different types of ‘wrong’, then throw them in the blender together. The results aren’t necessarily right, but they’re sometimes funny. That’s good enough for me. I’m very glad you appreciate.

Thanks. I think it’s pretty clear from viewing my comic that I have a HUGE inner drag queen inside me that just loves women’s fashion. I don’t go so far as to pull an Ed Wood and wear the clothes, though. I wouldn’t look too hot in them.

Everything in my comic is vector-based, which means I can use an envelope and stretch or distort the graphic to look reasonable … most of the time. It’s funny, though, because sometimes distorting the graphic makes it look worse than just clipping the flat image into the field. The dragon design on Phoebe’s shirt, for instance, is so complex and twisty (with nary a straight line in the whole thing) that I didn’t warp the graphic at all. It’s the same flat image clipped onto the shirt in every pic, and yet it looks okay. Thanks for that. Glad you think it works.

Traceeeeeeeee…. Why does your face remind me of a bear’s face? And her hair is the worst part, by far. If you concentrate, you can almost believe her skin is that color because she’s from India or the Middle East. Almost.

She doesn’t really have the most delicate facial features, that’s for sure. The hair and fake tan are trying to compensate, but they don’t exactly work. And I’m pretty sure that complexion is from a spray can, not from genetics.

You may be onto something there, though I’d say that she’s not really the type to be a closet anything; she’s pretty open. I think of Phoebe as being permanently stuck at the ‘twelve year-old girl’ stage of interpersonal development. Female friendships rule the roost for her, whereas boys in theory are interesting but in reality are kind of smelly and largely not worth the bother. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Phoebe is overwhelmingly fashionsexual. I don’t think she ever truly imprinted on the human race.

TRACEE- TRACEE- TRACEEEEE!
I don’t get all the hate for Tracee.
And apparently Phoebe’s dating experience in college with Colin’s buddy ruined her for the rest of us. At least she’s still fun to look at. Except for the glasses, and the horns that screw up her hairline.

Oh Yeah I forgot. U spelled check wrong. This is what I mean when I say that people outside of the U.S. are only pretending to speak English. Just havta complicate things by adding unnecessary u’s and such to simple words, like armor, color, and humor. Whatu theu hellue isu wrongue withue…. eh!? The scary part is that as a “teacher” (glares suspiciously) you are propagating this nonsensical nonsense that poses as writing. Sad. Just sad. All y’all’s needs to be learned to reed an talk more gooder. Y come u kant do it more better like us Merrykunz?